Last year, the Time Critical division of aircraft specialist, Air Charter Service, saw incredible growth. Particularly in its IATA-accredited Next Flight Out (NFO) offering, it achieved 175% more shipments than in the previous 12 months.
‘NFO has become invaluable’
Robert Alleman, CEO of ACS Time Critical, said: “We enjoyed a very successful 12 months last year – with all three of our services seeing large increases. The biggest of those came in our NFO division with almost three times the amount of work compared to 2024. We brought in Ash McCook a little under 18 months ago, who has a background in urgent logistics, which started in the armed forces more than 15 years ago. His focus on the NFO offering and team has really paid dividends.
“NFO provides a more versatile and cost-effective solution than OBC as it allows for larger shipments that are unaccompanied by a passenger. NFO has become an invaluable resource for a wide array of industries. Having the IATA Cargo Accreditation affords us direct access to securing cargo capacity on virtually any airline, significantly increasing the speed at which we can book NFOs. This increases our efficiency, benefitting not only our team, but also our customers.
“Our Onboard Courier (OBC), or hand-carry, team increased their jobs by 85% last year. We have a ground transportation department in the US, who often help to arrange trucking for our customer’s cargo and, with the increased workload, there’s has also grown, with 53% more bookings last year.”
Dan Morgan-Evans, ACS’s Group Cargo Director added: “We restructured our TCS leadership team last year. With Robert as the new head, and Andreas Spies promoted to COO, it has really paid off. The future for ACS Time Critical is bright, following the huge strides the they made last year and the team expansion we are currently undergoing.”
